Did Jesus Call Jews Children of the Devil?

"Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin" (John 8:34).

The whole issue of the "Jews of John" is SPIRITUAL in nature, not physical. It is dishonest at best and deceptive at worst to attempt to turn Jesus' words about spiritual slavery into some slanderous racial argument against the Jews!

Yet such is standard procedure among some hateful "Identity" groups that give all who understand and embrace the Israelite origins of the West a bad name. The vast majority of those who celebrate our Hebrew roots, who understand Joseph isn't Jewish, are neither racist or anti-Semitic and includes a growing number of Jews, just as prophesied, exemplified by Brit-Am Israel.

Jesus acknowledged that Abraham is the father of the Jews physically, but not always spiritually (John 8:37, 39, 42, 44). The same can be said and is true about all Twelve Tribes of Israel. In fact, the commission of the Two Witnesses - in the spirit of Elijah - is to restore our relationship with our Fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and thereby through their true religion reconcile us to our Heavenly Father (Malachi 4:6; Isa. 49:5-6).

Today, generally speaking, both Jews and Joes (Israelites) behave like Gentile bastards! (Hos. 2:4; 5:7). No wonder our nations will soon plead with God: "Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham's unaware of us and Israel doesn't acknowledge us: You, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your Name is from eternity" (Isa. 63:16).

Those anti-Semitic salesmen like the Aryan Nations, who pitch slanderous hate literature against all Jews (failing to differentiate), are of their father the Devil who was a liar and a murderer from the beginning. The worst offenders are those who profess to love God and yet pollute the Name of Christ pretending to be Christians: "Whoever hates his brother is a murderer" and "if a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar" (1 John 3:15; 4:20).

The frightening fact that some are so consumed with a blind hatred of Jews, espousing quack theories about Khazars, slopping swill about "the Serpent's Seed," and cooking up psuedo racial "science" (besides salvation is of grace not race), coddling up to Israel's terrorist enemies and preferring a perverted "Palestine" over the Promised Land of Israel, aiding and abetting those who would dismember the prophesied Jewish Homeland, proves the existence of an irrational evil entity filled with bitter frustration and wrath!

"Although Satan hates every human being, he especially hates those descended from Jacob-Israel (the Anglo-Saxon and Jewish peoples). He knows they're instrumental in his eventual overthrow. And out of Israel he's targeted the Jews. They've born the brunt of his brutality. Why? Because:

1. Many of the top positions in God's Kingdom (under the Fathers) will be filled with Jews! That explains the spiritual significance of the "Jewish conspiracy" theory. Satan's feeding people with half-truths and grotesque exaggerations, poisoning minds against the Jews and anything "Jewish." He sneers at their accomplishments and turns their praise into persecution!

2. The Jews are representative of all Israel, and they (not Ishmael!) hold the Promised Land in trust for all Twelve Tribes (Rom. 3:2).

3. The Jews have preserved the Bible (John 4:22), thereby retaining the knowledge of the true God and His Sabbath and Holy Days (and when to properly observe them).

4. The Jews are LIVING PROOF of God's invincible plan!

No wonder Satan feels threatened by any Jewish presence and has repeatedly attempted to erase them from off the face of the earth!" (excerpt from Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall).

May God grant freedom and repentance to all Israel, both Jews and Israelites, and reunite us as One Nation Under God, a truly United Kingdom (Ezek. 37:22). Meanwhile may God help us to gather and not to scatter Am Yisrael (the nation/people Israel) as we prepare to meet our God!

David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog.